impatient - Story 70860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept well in days. The house felt like a prison. Michael tapped his fingers against the worn wooden table, a nervous habit he couldn't control. He was supposed to be sorting through his father’s things, a task he felt dread and wanted to be over with, instantly. He found a small, spiral notebook tucked away in a toolbox.

The first item: "Go skydiving." He felt a sudden, sharp jolt of irritation. He wanted to be out, to be moving, to be far from this place. He felt the urge to jump.

He read the next line: "Learn to play chess." Michael threw the book across the room. He felt the familiar surge of frustration. He needed to *move*, to break the monotony. This was not the quick fix he'd been hoping for.

Emotion: impatient

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -0.33 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.07

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion impatient. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 impatient stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the impatient emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the impatient vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.527
`impatiently`	0.434
`impatient`	0.413
`S`	0.396
`impatience`	0.351

Suppressed:

`な`	-0.298
`s`	-0.298
`newfound`	-0.272
`께서`	-0.265
`заслу`	-0.264